SECTION I (ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING)

1. The solution of the differential equation dy

dx
+ y2 =0 IS

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A) y=-
x+c
_x3
B) y= -+
3
c

C) ce"
D) unsolvable as the equation is nonlinear.

2. The solution of the following differential equation is given by

d2y dy
dx2 - 5 dx + 6y = 0
A) Y = e 2x
+ e-3x

B) y = e2x + e3x
C) y = e-2x + e3x
D) y = e-2x + e-3x
3. Three coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 heads?
A) 1/8
B) 3/8
C) 5/8
D) 1/4

4. What are the eigen values of [-24 -12]

A) 1,4
B) 2,3
C) 0, 5
D) 1,5

5. What is the rank of the matrix A= [4~ i !1

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A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

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6. IF tCO) = 4 & {,Cx) = -z3 ,the lower bound of t(2)estimated by mean value
x +2

theorem is:
A) 0
B) 7
C) 12
D) 5

7. Consider the circuit shown below. Find the equivalent Thevenin's voltage
between nodes A and B. Values of resistances are shown in n.

A) 5 V
B) 10.75 V
C) 12 V
D) 8.57

8. If there are 5 branches and 4 nodes in the graph, then the numbers of mesh
equations that can be formed are?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8

9. The basic laws for analyzing an electric circuit are:

A) Einstein's theory.
B) Newton's laws.
C) Faraday's laws.
D) Kirchhoff's laws.

10. Discrete Fourier Transform is applicable to

A) Infinite sequences
B) Finite discrete sequences
C) Continuous infinite signals
D) Continuous finite sequences

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11. Transfer function of a system is defined as the ratio of output to input in
A) Z-transform
B) Fourier transform
C) Laplace transform
D) All of these
12. In a series RLC circuit, the phase difference between the current in the capacitor
and the current in the resistor is?

A) 0 degree
B) 90 degree
C) 180 degree
D) 360 degree
13. In a series RL circuit, voltage across resistor and inductor are 3 V and 4 V
respectively, then what is the applied voltage?
A) 7
B) 5
C) 4
D) 3
14. An intrinsic semiconductor at absolute zero temperature behaves like
A) A perfect conductor
B) A perfect Insulator
C) A super conductor
D) An amplifier
15. The depletion width of a Si p-n junction at a reverse bias of 10 V is 2 urn, When
the reverse bias is increased to 20 V, the depletion width will be:
A) 4.0!lm
B) 3.2!lm
C) 2.8!lm
D) 2.4 urn
16. N-channel FETs are preferred to p-channel FETs because
A) Holes have higher velocity
B) Electrons have higher mobility than holes
C) Electrons have higher diffusivity than holes
D) Electrons have higher effective mass than holes

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 17. Field Effect Transistor (FET) is an unipolar device because:
A) VDS of one polarity is used
B) V GS of one polarity is used
C) ID constitutes either electrons or holes
D) All the charge carriers flow towards a single pole.

18. What is the value of current when the gate to source voltage is less than the pinch off
voltage?
A) 1 A
B) 5 A
C) 100 A
D) OA

19. A BJT is a

A) Current -Controlled device

B) Voltage - Controlled device
C) Power- Controlled device
D) Field- Controlled device
20. A J-K flip-flop with J = 1 and K = 1 has a 20 kHz clock input. The Q output is

A) 20 KHz square wave

B) 10KHz square wave
C) Constantly Low
D) Constantly High
21. Which term applies to the maintaining of a given signal level until the next
sampling?
A) Holding
B) Aliasing
C) Shannon frequency sampling
D) Stair-stepping
22. An analog signal is sampled at 36 kHz and quantized into 256 levels. The time
duration of a bit of binary coded signal is
A) 5.78 us
B) 3.47 us
C) 6.43 ms
D) 7.86 ms

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23. The circuit of the given figure realizes the function _
A
II±3

lID
lIE

A) Y=(A'+B')C+(DE)'
B) Y=A'+B'+C+D'+E'
C) Y=(A+B)'+C+(D+E)'
D) Y=AB+C+DE
24. The given figure shows which type of counter?

A) Mod 6
B) Mod 3
C) Mod 8
D) Decade counter
25. Which of the following logic families has the shortest propagation delay?
A) CMOS
B) BiCMOS
C) ECL
D) 74SXX
26. A digital multiplexer is a combinational circuit that selects _
A) One digital information from several sources and transmits the selected one
B) Many digital information and convert them into one
C) Many decimal inputs and transmits the selected information
D) Many decimal outputs and accepts the selected information
27. The logic circuits whose outputs at any instant of time depends not only on the
present input but also on the past outputs are called _
A) Combinational circuits
B) Flip-flops
C) Sequential circuits
D) Latches
28. Which of the following describes the operation of a positive edge-triggered D flip-
flop?
A) If both inputs are HIGH, the output will toggle.
B) The output will follow the input on the leading edge of the clock.
C) When both inputs are LOW, an invalid state exists.
D) The input is toggled into the flip-flop on the leading edge of the clock and is passed to the
output on the trailing edge of the clock.

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29. If a capacitor is placed in the feedback path of an Op-amp circuit, then the circuit
can act as
A) Integrator
B) Differentiator
C) Multiplier
D) Divider
30. If an Op-amp has a common mode gain of 0.01 and a differential gain of 105• Its
CMRR would be
A) 0
B) Infinite
C) 10-3
D) 107
31. Calculate the value of emitter current for a transistor adc = 0.98 , I CBO = 511A and
IB = 9511A.
A) 4.5 rnA
B) 5 rnA
C) 3.5 rnA
D) 10 rnA
32. What is a Zener diode used as?
A) Rectifier
B) Oscillator
C) Regulator
D) Filter
33. Ripple factor of the half wave rectifier is nearly _
A) l.11
B) 0.87
C) l.21
D) 0.5

34. Which among the following is Volatile?

A) RAM
B) ROM
C) DROM
D) EPROM
35. Fan-in and Fan-out are the characteristics of -----
A) Registers
B) Logic families
C) Sequential Circuits
D) Combinational Circuits

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36. Where the result of an arithmetic and logical operation are stored?
A) In Accumulator
B) In Cache Memory
C) InROM
D) In Instruction Registry
37. _ is a closed loop system.
A) Auto-pilot for an aircraft
B) Direct current generator
C) Car starter
D) Electric switch
38. The open-loop control system is one in which
A) The output is dependent on the control input
B) The output is independent of the control input
C) Only system parameters have an effect on the control output
D) Out is independent to input
39. The frequency at which maximum amplitude ratio is attained is called the
_____ frequency.
A) Comer
B) Resonant
C) Cross over
D) Natural
40. The open loop transfer function of a plant is given as, G(s) = 1/(s2-1). If the plant is
operated in unity feedback configuration, then the lead compensator that can stabilize
the control system is:
A) 10(s+4)/(s+2)
B) 10(s+2)/(s+ 10)
C) 10(s+2)/(s+ 10)
D) 10(s-I)/(s+2)
41. The open loop DC gain of an unity negative feedback system with closed-loop
e f . s+4.
transfer unction 2
s +7s+13
IS

A) 4/13
B) 4
C) 4/9
D) 13
42. Poynting vector signifies:
A) Current density vector producing electrostatic field
B) Power density vector producing electrostatic field
C) Current density vector producing electromagnetic field
D) Power density vector producing electromagnetic field
43. The magnitude of open circuit and short circuit input impedances of a transmission line are
1000 and 25 0 respectively. The characteristic impedance of the line is:
A) 25 n
B) 50 n
C) 75 n
D) 100 n

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 44. Calculate power in each sideband, if power of carrier wave is 176W and there is 60%
modulation in amplitude modulated signal?
A) 13.36 W
B) 15.84 W
C) 52W
D) 176 W
45. At a given probability of error, binary coherent FSK is inferior to binary coherent
PSKby
A) 6 dB
B) 3 dB
C) 2 dB
D) 0 dB
46. In a communication system, when two finite-power waveforms x (t) and y (t) have the
property: x. y =0, then these waveforms are said to be _
A) Identical
B) Overlap
C) Similar
D) Orthogonal
47. Viterbi decoding is one of the most commonly used techniques in modern systems that
is used to decode the data encoded by _
A) Block coding
B) Hamming coding
C) Convolutional coding
D) CRC coding
48. The transmission line is distortion less if:

A) RL = .:
GC
B) RL=GC
C) LG=RC
D) RG=LC
49. Folded dipole antenna belongs to which type of antenna?
A) Reflector
B) Aperture
C) Lens
D) Wire
50. The technique OTDR (Optical time domain reflectometry) is used for the measurement of :
A) Bandwidth
B) Core diameter
C) Attenuation
D) Cladding diameter

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 SECTION II (RESEARCH METHODOLOGY)
51. Research is
A) Producing available knowledge again and again
B) Finding solution to any problem
C) Working in a scientific way to search for truth of any problem.
D) None of the above

52. Computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
A) range
B) standard deviation
C) normal curve
D) skewed distribution

53. Which of the following statements is true?

A) The mean is a continuous variable.
B) The variance and standard deviation of a normal population are equal.
C) For large samples, the distribution of scores is approximately normal.
D) None of the above

54. Taking someone else's words or ideas and taking credit for them as your own.
A) cite
B) plagiarism
C) paraphrase
D) credit

55. What steps are involved in a central tendency test?

A) Addition, subtraction, and division.
B) Determination of mean, median, and mode.
C) Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
D) None of the above

56. Random sampling is also called _

A) Availability sampling
B) Probation sampling
C) Probability sampling
D) Prospect sampling

57. What is the Median of the following data sample?

2,7,4,8,9,10,6,12,13
A)8
B) 11
C)9
D) 10

58. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A) Research is a hurried activity.
B) Research starts with a problem and ends with a problem.
C) Research is not a contributing factor of progress.
D) Research is an investigation where you look for answers that are already there.

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59. Which of the following has same mean median and mode?
A) 6,5,2,4,3,4,1
B) 4,2,2,1,3,2,3
C) 2,3,7,3,8,3,2
D) 4,3,4,3,4,6,4

60. Resource libraries, economic census, trade shows & associations would be examples of what kind
of data sources?
A) Tertiary
B) Secondary
C) Primary
D) Unprofessional

61. The purpose of correlation research is to:

A) study the relationship between two or more than two variables
B) predict the criterion variable on the basis of predictor variable
C) Both (1) and (ii)
D) Neither (i) Nor(ii)

62. It is sometimes called "central location" or just "center". It is a way to describe what's typical for
a set of data. It is called.
A) Middle destination
B) Center fold
C) Central Tendency
D) Mid frequency

63. Which is NOT a step of the scientific method?

A) Hypothesis
B) Analyse data
C) Count items
D) Report Findings

64. In order to pursue the research, which of the following is priorly required?
A) Developing a research design
B) Formulating a research question
C) Deciding about the data analysis procedure
D) Formulating a research hypothesis

65. Every person in the population has an equal chance of being selected -which sampling method
A) Systematic sampling
B) Quota sampling
C) Volunteer sampling
D) Random sampling

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66. When a distribution of scores is skewed, which of the following is the most representative
measure of central tendency?
A) Inference
B) Standard deviation
C) Mean
D) Median

67. An even spread of a variable that is symmetrical about the mean median and mode.
A) bar graph
B) histogram
C) scatter graph
D) normal distribution

68. A diagram with rectangles showing values or numbers.

A) Pictogram
B) Pie chart
C) Bar chart
D) Line graph

69. Type of research that solve practical issues is;

A) Fundamental research
B) Exploratory research
C) Applied research.
D) Empirical research

70. What should not be included in the conclusion?

A) literature review
B) summary
C) implication
D) major findings

71. A variable that is being manipulated is__

A) Independent variable
B) dependent variable
C) confounding variable
D) extraneous variable

72. What is qualitative research?

A) Observation and description of activities, situations, attitudes, or behaviors of a specific group
of people.
B) Analysis of numerical data.
C) Numerical comparisons and statistical inferences.
D) None of above

73. A standard deviation can never be

A) positive
B) negative
C) zero
D) None

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74. The sample standard deviation is denoted by:
A) s
B) P
C) L
D) 0"

75. First step of an investigation is _

A) collection of data.
B) presentation of data.
C) analysis of data.
D) explanation of data.

76. The sum of absolute deviations about median is _

A) the least
B) the greatest
C) zero
D) equal

77. When the value ofr=O, it is said to be _

A) no correlation.
B) positive.
C) perfect positive.
D) perfect negative.

78. The straight-line trend is represented by the equation _

A) y=a+bx
B) y=rnx
C) y=ax/ay
D) y=a*bx

79. In discrete and continuous frequency distributions N= _.

A) the sum of frequency.
B) number of observations.
C) minimum value.
D) maximum value.

80. is used to compare the variability of two or more than two series.
A) Mean.
B) Standard deviation.
C) Coefficient of variation.
D) Mean deviation.

81. The simplest device for ascertaining whether two variables are related is to prepare a dot chart is
called _
A) graphical method.
B) scatter diagram method.
C) method of least square.
D) concurrent deviation method.

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82. A bag contains 10 black and 20 white balls; a ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that
it is black?
A) 1/2
B) 1/3
C)O
D)3

83. Diagrams are for _

A) the use of exports.
B) better quantitative picture.
C) better mental appeal
D) the use of imports.

84. Which of the following is not a type of research design?

A) Experimental design
B) Descriptive design
C) Correlational design
D) Probability design

85. What is a research hypothesis?

A) A tentative explanation for a phenomenon
B) A statement that is proven to be true
C) A prediction of what the researcher expects to find
D) A statement of fact

86. What is the purpose of a pilot study?

A) To test the feasibility of the research design
B) To test the reliability and validity of the measures
C) To determine the appropriate sample size
D) To collect preliminary data

87. In five One-Day Internationals, a batsman has scored 31,97,112,63, and 12 runs. the quality
deviation of the info is-
A) 21.78
B) 23.79
C) 25.79
D) 26.77

88. Determine the mode of the decision received seven days in a row: 11,13,13,17,19,23,25
A) 11
B) 13
C) 17
D) 23

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89. The following pie chart comprises the cost of constructing one house. The total cost was Rs. 6
lakhs

Labom

The amount spent on cement is

A) Rs.2,00,000
B) Rs.l,60,000
C) Rs.l,20,000
D) Rs.l,OO,OOO

90. Referring to chart below,

Labom

the amount spent on cement, steel and supervision is what percent of the total cost of construction?

A) 40%
B) 45%
C) 50%
D) 55%

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91. Table shows the mobile phones sold on different days by different sellers. Read the table carefully
and answer the questions.
Mobiles Day
Phones
Sellers

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

P 40 45 48 28 50 24 20

Q 90 92 27 12 16 98 26

R 80 36 30 13 28 62 47

S 60 46 12 64 52 34 76

T 48 18 58 69 70 10 15
Find the difference of mobile phones sold by P and R together on Monday to the mobile phones sold
by Sand T on Wednesday.
A) 60
B) 50
C) 80
D) 20

92. Referring to above table, Find the ratio of mobile phones sold by Q on Tuesday and Saturday
together to the mobile phones sold by R on Thursday and Sunday together.
A) 7: 19
B)19:5
C) 19: 6
D)2:5

93. The frequency distribution of a numerical data can be graphically represented by a _

A) Histogram
B) Telegram
C) Monogram
D) Anagram

94. Which one of the following is not the graphical representation of statistical data:
A) Bar graph
B) Histogram
C) Frequency polygon
D) Cumulative frequency distribution

95. In a histogram, each class rectangle is constructed with base as

A) frequency
B) class-intervals
C) range
D) size ofthe class

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96. What does the command \documentclass {article} do in LaTeX?
A) It sets the document class as an article
B) It creates a new section in the document
C) It sets the font style of the document
D) It creates a new document

97. What does the command \begin {center} do in LaTeX?

A) It creates a new center-aligned section.
B) It sets the font size to center aligned.
C) It creates a new paragraph.
D) It centers the text or content.

98. Which of the following procedures would not be included in a programme of qualitative research?
A) Assessment of effect size.
B) Development of appropriate research questions.
C) Clarification of the logic linking the data to research propositions.
D) Explanation of criteria for data interpretation.

99. What is the most common method of data collection in quantitative research?
A) Interviews
B) Focus groups
C) Observation
D) Surveys/questionnaires

100. Which statistical test is used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means
of two or more groups in quantitative research?
A) t-test
B) ANOVA (Analysis of Variance)
C) Chi -square test
D) Regression analysis

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